My Minnesota

As the Better Half and I approached the tack barn this morning at dawn, the temperature (not the windchill) varied from -21℉ to -23 ℉. It wa...

Were it not for our persistently cloudy skies, about 3 am this morning we could have enjoyed seeing December's full moon, known as Littl...

For the past couple of days I’ve been enjoying my seasonal job as a volunteer Christmas cookie taste tester elf. So far I haven’t had to put...

I bet at least once you’ve gone down a flight of stairs that had one more, or less, step than you expected. It threw you off balance for a b...

If this year is like most years, we’ll realize at some point we’re short a present for some certain someone or other, but for now, after cro...

To show how old, and old fashioned, I am, today we received four CDs of Christmas music I ordered a week or so ago. As I’m typing this, the ...

A boule of sourdough bread is about ready to come out of the oven. The house smells great and the oven has taken the edge off any late Novem...

The amaryllis bulbs, which were tucked away in a cool dark place at Christmas last year, are now repotted and showing signs of life. Maybe w...

The beauty of today's snowfall has been tempered because it fell not only on woods and fields and waters, but also on roads and driveway...

We live in strange and interesting times. Usually a pileated woodpecker feeds on the suet chunks in the suet feeder. Not this morning. The p...

The tree has been cut, shortened to fit the house, and is likely to get decorated over the weekend. Tomorrow the Better Half will bake her f...

Today is a hectic day so we’ll make this post short and sweet. We hope the season and the New Year brings not just tidings of, but real, com...

The cookies with the red centers are known in our family as thumbprint cookies. In my family of origin, my mother used to bake a similar coo...

Each week the trip to pick up our community supported agriculture [CSA] share box takes us past the ridges near Wild River State Park. Effec...

This morning we headed South to Marine on St. Croix to lay our hands on some now " world famous " St. Croix Chocolate Co. chocolat...

We're in another calm before the storm, to the extent there's calm during Christmas season before late Christmas Eve. Christmas cook...